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uced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.

The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix. Hutton.

ributing an electric current, either to various points in rotation, as in some motors, or along two or more lines in parallel, as in a distributing system.

l, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] "I could not do withal." Shak. -- To do without, to get along without; to dispense with. -- To have done, to have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist. -- To have done with, to have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with. -- Well…

r, as of a creeping hepatic moss. Dorsal vessel (Zoöl.), a central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects, acting as a heart.

A division of chætopod annelids in which the branchiæ are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chætopoda.]

Having branchiæ along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. -- n.

s around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion. Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage. Knolles.

A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural. Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.

r its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.

A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. Dragged by the cords which through his feet were…

A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.…

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow. He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppres…

A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.

To lead along step by step; to entice. With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden.

Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. "Our drift was south." Hakluyt.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.